Posted by
Patrick Henry on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 12:49:42 PM
You wouldn't send a fox to feed your chickens unless you were really stupid, or
just wanted fewer chickens. Yet Barack Obama has dispatched his puppet attorney
general Eric Holder to help Afghans ferret out and prosecute corruption in government.
It's the same thing!
Consider the case of the ubiquitous Mr. Holder, the reincarnation of "Slick Willie."
An undistinguished attorney in Bill Clinton's Justice Department, it was Holder who
researched, recommended and signed off on Clinton's notorious pardon of fugitive
financier Marc Rich. It was Rich, you'll remember, who was under indictment for
financial fraud, brokering oil deals with Iran during years in which they were banned
by law, and owing $48M in back taxes. In total he faced 51 counts of tax evasion,
among other crimes, when he scooted on his bail and took refuge in Switzerland.
When his wife, Denise, who was a New York socialite and Democratic fundraiser
facilitated a large cash donation to Hillary Clinton's senatorial campaign and pledged
even more for Clinton's own post-presidential library, the lame duck president, with
Holder's ample assistance, suddenly saw the light and issued Rich a pardon. It was
one of the most excoriated pardons in presidential history, condemned by lopsided
margins in both the House and the Senate and used to defeat the Democrats in the
following election. During his own confirmation hearings, Holder allowed as how it
was an error in judgment to recommend that pardon. Boy howdy!
Then there was the mysterious dismissal of charges against the three New Black
Panthers accused of intimidating Philadelphia voters with a deadly weapon. They
never contested their indictments and had already been found guilty when Holder's
Justice Department summarily dropped all charges, save an injunction banning one
of the three from carrying a weapon near a polling station. I'll bet that hurt! When
media inquired about the reasons for the dismissal, Holder and his minions
stonewalled. When congress inquired, a so-called internal inquiry was launched by
someone subservient to those who had made the decision. Some inquiry. More
recently J. Christian Adams, an attorney who was, until fairly recently in the Justice
Department, alleged that the decision was entirely political, that attorneys were
strictly instructed to bring no more prosecutions against voter intimidation or
tampering by minorities and that a "pervasive climate of hostility" against prosecution
of non-whites exists in the department today. Liberty and justice for all (unless you're
white).
Most recently, there is the matter of Arizona's new immigration enforcement law,
which Holder proclaimed unconstitutional and threatened to sue over just before
admitting that he hadn't even read it. While he has not yet filed the suit, it is clear
that he intends to if, and when, the Supreme Court rules against the companion
Arizona law inflicting criminal sanctions against those in the state who employ
illegals. If the supremes let that one stand, it is unlikely that Holder can succeed
in the other matter, and since he's already wearing the equivalent of twenty rare
omelets on his face, might simply choose to cower away into the night.
Holder's record includes partnership in a firm that specializes in defending those
incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay, and many of his former associates are now
employed by his Justice Department. After much prodding, he finally specfied how
many, but declined to name them, and called them "great patriots" for their work
on behalf of the detainees. It may be something of a stretch to call someone who
carries the legal water for a bunch of murdering terrorists a patriot. Do you think?
There is no distinguished legal acumen here. Eric Holder is a partisan politician
whose record suggests that his chief purpose in life is to advocate for lawbreakers
and who is arguably a reverse racist. For the "land of the free and home the brave"
to send this jerk to a foreign country to help them root out corruption is like pitching
an anchor to a drowning man. Or maybe sending the fox to the hen house?